Hi everyone, by now many of you may (or may not, in which case, carry on) have noticed that I've been neglecting the Eagles History section in general and Greatest Eagles by the Numbers in particular. There are a number of reasons, starting with the time I've been devoting to my blog, "Today in Pro Football History" (there's a link in the Ultimate NFL Links thread). Since launch in Oct. 2009, it has taken a great deal of my free time - especially during the season (September thru January) when I irrationally insist on posting every day. It's been worth it, and I'm seeing it begin to draw attention and take off, but it makes it very hard to do something else that is as time-intensive as Greatest Eagles by the Numbers - especially since I still have my day job and other Real Life things to fill up my time.
Anyway, feeling a certain loyalty to CF, I have been trying to come up with a way to combine what I'm doing on my own site with the Eagles History section here. While "Today in Pro Football History" covers all of the NFL and other pro leagues of the past (hey, I'm not too choosy, I even put up two posts regarding the XFL last spring), naturally the Eagles get primacy of place. I had suggested to GF that I could post links to Eagles-related entries on my site to the Eagles History section, for anyone who might be interested. Since I am pretty much done with Eagles posts for the next few weeks, I will back load a few (mostly good ones, we need that!). Feel free to comment, of course. Also, while it's stretching the concept of Eagles History slightly, I will post a couple pertaining to Philadelphia franchises that existed in other leagues - most notably, the Stars of the USFL (they brought a championship to Philadelphia, so of course were forced to move and the league folded) and the Bell of the WFL (pure comic relief).
I haven't given up on Greatest Eagles by the Numbers, but for now that will remain on hiatus. Still waiting for that billionaire fan of pro football history to come along who wants to provide the backing for all of this to be my full-time profession (No, I'm not holding my breath
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